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Old Age Echoes

  • Date: 1891
Text:

The three poems were first published together in Lippincott's Magazine, March 1891, under the general

National Literature

  • Date: 1890 or 1891
Text:

leafhandwritten; The first page of a draft essay that was published in the March 1891 issue of The North American

It was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), under the title American National Literature before

several different colors of pencil, and the two scraps of paper that constitute this manuscript leaf were

[Then Another and very grave point]

  • Date: 1890–1891
Text:

.00012xxx.00560[Then Another and very grave point]1890–1891prose1 leafhandwritten; A partial draft of American

, which appeared in the March 1891 issue of North American Review, as Have We a National Literature?

In general civilization

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

This is a draft of the essay Whitman later published as American National Literature in Good-Bye My Fancy

, 1890" from the North American Review. In general civilization

Old Poets

  • Date: 1890
Text:

The essay was first printed in the North American Review in November 1890 and later reprinted in the

Germany, or even Europe

  • Date: 1890-1891
Text:

1891prosehandwritten1 leaf; This manuscript led to a passage published in Have We a National Literature, (North American

March 1891), and in Good-bye My Fancy 2nd Annex to Leaves of Grass (1891), in the section entitled American

Death's Valley

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

The Harper's printing included an engraving, The Valley of the Shadow of Death, by American painter George

Death of Abraham Lincoln

  • Date: 1889-1890
Text:

Portions of this lecture were also originally published as Abraham Lincoln's Death.

Walt Whitman's Account of the Scene at Ford's Theatre, in the New York Sun on 12 February 1876 and were

Whitman, Walt, poet, was born May 31

  • Date: 1888
Text:

Portions of this manuscript were also used in Autobiographic Note.

Hicks (1748–1830)

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

consent of all the other sects

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

The division took place

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

The Hicksite separation appears

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

Instructive, recurring back

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

1645–6

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

opening of George Fox

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

preparations for the printing of November Boughs, Whitman told Horace Traubel, "Some of these bits were

[In the main I]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

sal.00003xxx.005602010.9.262[In the main I]about 1891prose1 leafhandwritten; Draft fragment of American

Annex at 69

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

The eight poems from this sequence were then reprinted in a section of November Boughs entitled Sands

[To-Day at the peak]

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

Lines from this manuscript were published posthumously as [Glad the Jaunts for the Known].

November Boughs

  • Date: 1887
Text:

The poems were published first in Lippincott's Magazine, November, 1887. November Boughs

Burns as Poet and Person.

  • Date: 1886
Text:

as Poet and Person.1886prose13 leaveshandwritten; Fair copy prepared for publication in the North American

The first page of this manuscript bears a note written by James Redpath, the editor of the North American

because the leaves have been mounted and bound in a volume that also includes a frontispiece from the 1860

Father Taylor (and Oratory)

  • Date: 1886-1887
Text:

Whitman went to hear Taylor speak on several occassions during his stay in Boston in 1860.

[Each claim, ideal, line]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

the middle of the page appear three underlined words, "These pages past," but whether or not they were

My Task

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

All of the verses except For us two, reader dear were fused together and published as one poem entitled

[and a surplus of a hundred millions & more]

  • Date: 1891
Text:

surplus of a hundred millions & more]1891prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript is a partial draft of American

, which first appeared in the March 1891 issue of North American Review under the title, Have We a National

[Which leads me to another point]

  • Date: about 1891
Text:

This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891

Authors at Home - No. VII

  • Date: 1885
Text:

The article, published under the name "George Selwyn," was part of a series called "American Authors

If I should need to name, O Western World!

  • Date: October 25, 1884
Text:

These were probably sent to the Philadelphia Press, where, on October 26, 1884, the poem was first published

Though the spare hours

  • Date: 1884-1888
Text:

The notes were apparently intended for a revision to the essay Robert Burns as Poet and Person, which

Robert Burns in The Critic (16 December 1882), and as Robert Burns as Poet and Person in The North American

[? or Names]

  • Date: After 1884
Text:

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05187xxx.00469[?

titles of two articles; one was published as Slang in America, first in the periodical the North American

Down, down, proud gorge

  • Date: about 1889
Text:

These drafts were later greatly revised and combined when published in 1889 with the title To the Year

Written Impromptu in an album

  • Date: 1883
Text:

The contents of this manuscript were used in Complete Prose (1892), under the title Written Impromptu

[Here fretful]

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

The lines were revised and published as Queries to My Seventieth Year in 1888. [Here fretful]

[(for name?]

  • Date: After 1883
Text:

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05186xxx.00469[(for name?]

ruminates about a title, presumably for the piece published as Slang in America, first in the North American

Mannahatta

  • Date: about 1888
Text:

published (the first Mannahatta, which begins with the words "I was asking...," first appeared in the 1860

Carlyle from American points of View

  • Date: 1882
Text:

hun.00034xxx.00828HM 138Carlyle from American points of ViewCarlyle from American points of view1882prose37

leaveshandwritten; A draft of Whitman's essay Carlyle from American Points of View, first published

the draft, Whitman indicates that the piece was originally submitted for publication in the North American

Carlyle from American points of View

[It will seem strange]

  • Date: 1882-1886
Text:

does not appear in the essay Robert Burns as Poet and Person until its publication in The North American

Burns says

  • Date: 1882-1886
Text:

however, Thompson's letters figure in the essay Robert Burns as Poet and Person published in The North American

The Dead Carlyle

  • Date: 1881
Text:

Parts of the essay were used for Death of Thomas Carlyle published in Specimen Days in 1882 (later retained

[Then Principal]

  • Date: about 1881
Text:

the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American

[Not free and naive poetry]

  • Date: about 1881
Text:

the essay first published as The Poetry of the Future in the February 12, 1881, issue of the North American

? for beginning

  • Date: between 1881 and 1885
Text:

1Undated, on the American idiomloc.05215xxx.00067?

[True, I could not construct]

  • Date: about 1882
Text:

revised, partial draft of A Memorandum at a Venture, first published in the June 1882 issue of North American

Still the rule and demesne

  • Date: 1880-1881
Text:

in the essay "The Poetry of the Future" first published in the February 1881 issue of The North American

First, to me

  • Date: about 1890
Text:

come the Peopleabout 1890prose1 leafhandwritten; A prose fragment that Whitman used in the essay, American

National Literature, first published in the North American Review in March 1891, under the title Have

Patroling Barnegat

  • Date: 1880 or 1881
Text:

The poem had been first published in The American in June 1880.

[still call myself a Half-Paralytic]

  • Date: 1880
Text:

This manuscript also includes lines that were used in Specimen Days & Collect, see the description for

[good prefatory passage]

  • Date: 1880–1881
Text:

made a similar notation on "I have jotted down these memoranda" (described above), portions of which were

How Would it Do

  • Date: 1880-1885
Text:

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05173xxx.00469How Would it Do1880-1885prose1 leafhandwritten; This

draft with trial titles and general ideas for the essay Slang in America, published in the North American

[? divide into two]

  • Date: After 1880
Text:

1Undated, on the American Idiomloc.05188xxx.00469[?

referred to here in a trial title as "Slang and Names in America," was first published in the North American

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